Future primary school teachers preparation for ecological upbringing of students as a pedagogical problem of today

The article identifies and characterizes the features of environmental
upbringing of primary school students and the preparation of teachers for its
implementation as a pedagogical problem of today. The authors research scientific
papers on the peculiarities of environmental upbringing of primary school students and
teacher training, as well as describe ways to achieve the goal of environmental
upbringing in the case of solving a set of interrelated tasks that have educational, upbringing, and value components. Environmental upbringing is one of the priority
areas in the general system of education, aimed at the harmonious development of
man, his civic consciousness. Therefore, it cannot be considered as a separate form
of education. Although, of course, the relevance and specificity of environmental
upbringing encourage us to perceive it as one of the important areas of the overall
educational process. In the scientific and pedagogical literature, environmental
upbringing and upbringing are interpreted as a psychological and pedagogical process
of human impact in order to form knowledge of the scientific foundations of nature, the
necessary beliefs and practical skills, a certain orientation and active social position in
environmental protection, environmental management and reproduction of natural
resources. Modern theory and methods of vocational education offers a concept of
philosophical and psychological-pedagogical foundations of the process of
professional environmental upbringing of future primary school teachers, emphasizing
the role of methods and technologies by which it is possible to implement the content
of environmental upbringing, implementing the highest ideals and standards of
ecological educated personality of the teacher.
The authors argue that the actualization of the tasks of preparing future
primary school teachers for environmental upbringing of primary school students is
due to modern socio-cultural circumstances, which allows the formation of
environmentally educated personalities capable of self-application of environmental
knowledge and skills.
Key words: environmental upbringing, primary school student, teacher
training.